[issue16112] platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

> You can use subprocess in platform for Python 2.7, but only if
> it's available. Otherwise the module must fall back to the
> portable popen() that comes with the platform module.

Marc-Andre: I still don't understand why you want to run platform.py
of Python 2.7 on older Python version? How does it happen? I expected
Python 2.3 to use its own version of platform.py.

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